What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this Magic Tree House Research Guide: Pilgrims. Includes fun facts from Jack and Annie, fantastic photos and illustrations, and a guide to doing further research.

本书以一个更为生动与黑暗的故事重新诠释了格林童话经典篇章《雪白与玫瑰红》(Snow-White andRed-Rose)。 故事围绕着两个世界的边界展开，一个是犯罪频发的村庄，一个是属于女孩林嘉的避风港。林嘉有两个女儿，安静的布伦泽和热情的乌达儿，小小避风港保护着她们免受林嘉曾经遭受的暴力与苦难。但是现实世界是你无法永远躲避的，巫师和野熊先后闯过了边界。林嘉和两个女儿能够守住原有的平静，适应这个美丽与残酷共生的世界么？ "Tender Morsels "is a dark and vivid story, set in two worldsand worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in herown personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for herearthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place,protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But thereal world cannot be denied forever--magicked men and wild bearsbreak down the borders of Liga's refuge. Now, having know

"A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero" - David WalliamsPhizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, RoaldDahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with QuentinBlake's inimitable artwork. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, sothe Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingeniousplan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! RoaldDahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales ofNorwegian parents. After school in England he went to work forShell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on thehead", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl diedin 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-lovedchildren's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of RoaldDahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake'sillustrations.

Around the World in Eighty Days (环游地球80天) In a race against time, the unflappable Phileas Fogg can't affordto lose his cool ... One evening, while relaxing after dinner at his gentlemen's club,Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel aroundthe entire globe in eighty days - and he is determined not tolose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, thecool-headed Englishman and his hot-blooded French manservantPassepartout immediately set off for Dover. Whether travelling bytrain, steamship, sailing boat, sledge or even elephant, they mustovercome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks andInspector Fix of Scotland Yard - who believes Fogg has robbed theBank of England - to win this extraordinary wager. Tarzan of the Apes (人猿泰山) Can a wild man resist the call of the jungle? Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the Africanjungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape fostermothe

Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie - the boy withnosepickingly disgusting habits - in this bumper book of ninerevolting stories from Burp!,Yuck! and Bogeys! Join Bertie as hestages a rebellion in the school dinner hall, has a sickly time atthe fairground, and tries to give up his lifelong habit of pickinghis nose!

Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie - the boy withnosepickingly disgusting habits - in this bumper book of ninerevolting stories. Join Bertie as he goes to Angela Nicely s pinkparty dressed as a worm, dares Know-all Nick to come to school inhis pants, and takes a flea-infested Whiffer to the vet!

This is the much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badgerand Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing hisspring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well asadventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinkson the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall.Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad become the firmest of friends, butafter Toad's latest escapade, can they join together and beat thewretched weasels once and for all? "The Wind in the Willows" byKenneth Grahame is one of the twelve wonderful classic storiesbeing relaunched in "Puffin Classics" in March 2008.

Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the nastiest and meanest farmers youcould meet - and they hate Mr Fox! They're determined to catch himand lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out.Clever Mr Fox has other plans and manages to outwit the nastyfarmers.

What was it like to wear armor? What was the food like in castles? This book explores what life was really like in medieval times.

Charlie Bucket loves chocolate - and Mr Willy Wonka, the mostwondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazingchocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of alifetime and all you have to do is find one of the five GoldenTickets. Charlie is the last lucky winner to join Willy Wonka in atour of his factory - where some amazing surprises, both good andbad, await the children. This title is an award-winning Roald Dahlfavorite.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 Boys don't keep diaries—or do they? The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate to It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary. In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion. Author/illustrator Jeff Kinney recalls the growing pains of school life and introduces a new kind of hero who epitomizes the challenges of being a kid. As Greg says in his diary, "Just don't

星期二晚上8点左右，池塘里昏昏欲睡的青蛙被惊醒了！接下来，没有文字的描述，只有在荷叶上尽情飞翔的青蛙带你穿越城镇的每个角落，感受一个不平静的夜晚，初升的太阳照耀着恢复平静的城镇。然而，下一个星期二的晚上，房子的外墙上借由灯光的照射，半空中出现了猪的影子…… 这本书对于孩子*的吸引力，应该是书中梦境般的故事展现。在夜晚飞翔的青蛙，乘坐的荷叶好像阿拉伯神话故事中的飞毯。精美独到的画面是图画书的一大特 点。而像大卫·威斯纳这样的创作者，在精美图画的基础上，更融入令人瞠目结舌的大胆幻境。对于成人来说，他所描绘的这些画面可能有些匪夷所思，再加上没有 文字的描述，令很多成年人在遍阅读的时候会感到不明所以。然而对于孩子来说，却让他们一眼就能明白图画所描述的故事情节，并且发自内心地感到这

Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose pickingly disgusting habits -is back for another helping of comic chaos! Bertie finds himselfdesperate to go to the loo on the school coach, up to his neck insand and trouble on holiday, and staging a one-man protest to stopMum and Dad from selling the house!

Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a hundred years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their way to the 1889 World's Fair. Below the Eiffel Tower, built especially for the fair, there are thousands of exhibits from all over the world. But how will Jack and Annie find the magicians in the crowds of people? And who are the magicians anyway? Jack and Annie are about to find out in another adventure filled with history, magic, and amazing surprises! In Night of the New Magicians, Mary Pope Osborne brings to life an amazing time in history that gave birth to many startling inventions and scientific discoveries that would change the world forever. The paperback edition boasts all-new backmatter full of activities!

Twelve-year-old villain Artemis Fowl is the most ingeniouscriminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to holda leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargainedfor when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (LowerElements Police Reconnaissance Unit). This is a truly modernclassic, first published in 2002.

这是一本足以让人永葆童心的不朽经典，被全球亿万读者誉为值得收藏的书。 遥远星球上的小王子，与美丽而骄傲的玫瑰吵架负气出走，在各星球漫游中，小王子遇到了傲慢的国王、酒鬼、惟利是图的商人，死守教条的地理学家，后来到地球上，试图找到治愈孤独和痛苦的良方。 这时，他遇到一只奇怪的狐狸，于是奇妙而令人惊叹的事情发生了…… 《小王子》犹如透亮的镜子，照出了荒唐的成人世界。她在提醒我们，只有爱，才是的哲学，才是我们活下去的理由。

Horrid Henry has collected all of his favourite jokes and isitching to share them. He's divided them into sections, each onecovering a subject he finds fascinating: Demon Dinner Ladieslaughs, Anti-Aunt jokes, scary screamers and jokes not suitable formums. And Henry's written his own, special introduction to eachsection. A side-splittingly funny new book bursting with jokescollected from primary schools throughout Britain - so they'reperfect for their audience.

You may be able to count to all the way to 100, but have you ever counted to a googol? It's impossible In this fun book of numbers, Robert E. Wells explores the wonderful world of zeros and tells how the googol came to be named.While you learn about place values and the names of big numbers, try to imagine what those numbers can do. How long would it take to toast 100,000 marshmallows? What does a million dollars really look like? How many trillion miles away is the star nearest our own sun, and how do we know this?

'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the great differences that divided them, and when it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships. 十岁的女孩凯西·罗根是家中的掌上明珠，也是一个勇敢的女孩。她对于黑人所受到的压榨和不公平，感到十分愤怒和不解。她和兄弟们，曾为了报复向他们溅泥水的白人小学校车，而在路上挖大洞，使得车子陷入其中不能动……凯西一家的遭遇，只是大时代中的一个小故事，种族间的冲突，仍然她的生活中在继续。